"I pointed it out to her as clearly as I could. I'm all at sea, Lester."
Well, if even he were beginning to doubt, matters were indeed serious!
"It's incomprehensible!" I sighed, after a moment's confused thought. "It's——"
"Yes—past believing."
"But the coachman——"
"The coachman's evidence, I fear, won't help us much—rather the reverse."
I actually gasped for breath—I felt like a drowning man from whose grasp the saving rope had suddenly, unaccountably, been snatched.
"In that case——" I began, and stopped.
"Well, in that case?"
"We must find some other way out," I concluded lamely.